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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Set of Italian 18th century Oil and Vinegar Flacons
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A set of handblown early 18th century Oil and Vinegar Flacons. Following the French Court etiquette rules and a taste for luxury spreaded around Europe in the 18th century. Eating be...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Glass

Mid-Century Modern Crystal Vase Val Saint Lambert - Belgium, 1950
Located in Girona, Girona
Large vase of pliers worked crystal. Design: Antonio Bon for Val Saint Lambert. Belgium, Liège c. 1950.
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Belgian Mid-Century Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Crystal

18Th C. Wabi Sabi Primitive Black Terracotta Portuguese Vessel
Located in London, GB
A heavily patinatetd 18th C. black terracotta vessel from northern Portugal. Originally used for the storage of oil/wine.
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Portuguese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Terracotta

Korean Celadon Ceramic Long Neck Bottle Vase with Slip Inlay Goryeo Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean ceramic celadon bottle vase with inlay design from Goryeo Dynasty (918 to 1392AD) circa 12th century. With an elongated neck that continues dow...
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Korean Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Rare Chinese Porcelain Ming Period Kosometsuke Incense Burner, ca 1600
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
⁠It's 17th century chinese porcelain, Ming period, made for the Japanese market. This unusual Kosumetsuke Koro would have been used for incense that is added to the charcoal fire dur...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Chinese Kangxi Octagonal Famille Verte Floral Painted Porcelain Vase
Located in Bishop s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A scarce Chinese Kangxi porcelain octagonal yen yen vase decorated with vases containing floral arrangements in the Famille Verte palette and ...
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Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Huge Antique Hand Blown Formed Thick Deep Green Wine or Spirits Bottle
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This very large and substantial antique wine bottle's exact origins are unknown, but it is presumed to be English or possibly Dutch and dating from the early 1700's. The bottle was hand blown and formed and uses a very thick deep olive green glass. The slightly bent neck has a very thick stem and top which leads to a large bulbous or flask shaped base. The front and back sides have been slightly flattened which was likely done for packing and stability during shipping. The capacity of this bottle has not been tested, but presumed to be in the 2 Imperial gallon...
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English George I Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Blown Glass

18th Century Rare Large Terracotta Hand Carved French Biot Pot
Located in Miami, FL
This fabulous handmade terracotta pot originated in the Provençal town of Biot and was used to store olive oil. The interior glaze that extends to around the rim was used to prevent ...
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French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Terracotta

A Large and Rare 17th Century Lignum Vitae Wassail Bowl
Located in Harrodsburg, KY
An exceptionally large example of a traditional wassail vessel turned out of lignum vitae. Due to the immense size, it has been turned in three parts. The bowl, stem, and plinth are ...
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English Jacobean Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Brass

Pair of George III Carved Mahogany Dining Urns
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each urn with a cone finial, the collar carved with interlaces and a tapered fluted body on a spreading socle. Formerly with spigots. Provenance: Ginsburg Levy, Inc., New York...
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English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Mahogany

18th Century Large Delft Urn / Vase with Handles
Located in Basildon, GB
18th Century Large Delft Urn / Vase , with beast decorated handles, painted in blue with river landscapes, a courting couple and bridge, within foliate an...
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Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Delft

32CM Antique Chinese 16/17C Chinese Porcelain Dish Swatow Monochrome
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely monochrome Swatow/Zhangzhou dish. Brown glaze color. It's quite unusual to see a swatow dish only with craquele, without scene or incised decoration. Great reference p...
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Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Delft Garniture Set, 18th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-painted set of blue and white delft porcelain. Three covered vases and two trumpet vases. The lids depict perched birds. The vases ...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Pre-Columbian Ceramic Vessel with Double Ribbon Handle from the Chancay Culture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Circa 800 to 1476 AD. Peru. Gourd shaped Pre-Columbian Vessel from the Chancay Culture with a double looped ribbon handle. Faded brown and black vertical stripe detail featured on ve...
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Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Antique 18th C Blue and White Kraak Style Dutch Delftware Plate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Earthenware dish with a flat rim. Decorated in different shades of blue on a white tin glaze Condition typical rimfritting/small chips only. Size 313x55mmm DiameterxHeight Perio...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

18th Century Rustic French Hand Hammered Copper Garden Watering Can
Located in Haarlem, NL
A large and heavy 18th century copper garden watering can. Hand-beaten or hammered copper can with a non-detachable pouring spout. The copper rolled handl...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Copper

Chinese Qing-Dynasty Ochre Glazed Vinegar Jar
Located in Kastrup, DK
Chinese brown ochre green glazed stoneware vinegar storage jar. Decorative with god, natural patina. Historically these jars were used to ferment and store vinegar in a Qing-dynasty...
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Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Stoneware

18th Century Tin Glazed Dutch Delft Pottery Blue and White Vase or Jar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine 18th century Dutch Delft pottery vase or jar. Of typical vasiform shape with medium and deep blue Chinoiserie landscape decoration, dot border to the top rim, and swag...
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Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Delft

Antique 18th century Large French Empire Ceramic Glazed Vase
Located in Doha, QA
This is an absolutely magnificent one of a kind French Empire hand crafted Vase with dragons and angles. It’s a perfect example of the Parisian craftsmanship of the French empire per...
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French Empire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Kendi, Transitional Period, 17th Century, China
Located in Austin, TX
A fine Chinese shipwreck blue and white decorated large porcelain kendi, or pouring vessel, Transitional Period, late Ming or early Qing Dynasty, mid...
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Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Pre-Columbian Cupisnique Stirrup Vessel from Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pre-Columbian ceramic stirrup vessel in Cupisnique style circa 700-500BCE. This ancient vessel features a robust squatted body and a short thick stirr...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Antique Candle Mold In Fruit Wood From The 1800s
Located in Søborg, DK
Antique candle wax mold used for dipping candles Made of mahogany with a tin liner Great decorative piece Would also look great as a planter on a s...
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English Victorian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Tin

Antique Chinese Ceramic Tea Leaf Storage Jar Song-Yuan Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stoneware pottery jar used for storage, made in southern China Fujian or Guangdong province since Song Dynasty for domestic use as well as export. They were widely exported to Japa...
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Chinese Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Late 18th Century French Glazed Porcelain Apothecary/Pharmacy Jar - UNG: SULPH
Located in North Miami, FL
Late 18th Century french glazed porcelain apothecary/pharmacy jar with lid - 'UNG: SULPH' By: Charles-Antoine Acloque Material: ceramic, porcelain, paint, enamel Technique: molded, ...
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French French Provincial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Enamel

Louis XVI Creamware Cruet Cachepot
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI Creamware Cruet Cachepot. Italian neoclassical glazed pottery original cruet stand/oil and vinegar bottle carrier/double cachepot of ovoid scallop form with pierced open wo...
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Italian Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Pottery

Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Garniture
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Five Piece Famille Rose Porcelain Garniture, circa 1730-1750 The garniture of five Chinese Export porcelain vases consists of three covered baluster vases and two ...
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Italy Richard Ginori Early 18th Century Porcelain Vase
Located in Brescia, IT
This elegant vase was produced by Richard Ginori porcelain manufacturer in Doccia, Italy, in the 1730 Not easy to find this model so fine and elegant with its country flowers in pin...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

18th Century Italian Faience (Majolica) Apothecary Medicine Jar
Located in San Francisco, CA
An antique 18th-Century Italian faience albarello or apothecary pharmacy jar. This wonderful old jar is hand painted and in remarkable condition considering its age, having some expe...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Faience

Antique Bronze / Copper Cloisonné Koro with Foo Lion shape Japan 19th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice Quality with superb decoration. Condition Some usual age signs like ware and the foo lion is loose. Size 27x18CM HeightxDiameter Period 19th century 20th century
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Chinese Meiji Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

18th Century English Treen Yew Wood Mortar and Pestle
Located in Stamford, CT
18th century English treen mortar and pestle hand turned and carved from yew wood with the rich and warm patina that only comes with age and use. Beautifully carved by hand from a si...
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English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Yew

European Peasant Motif Silverplated on Repousse Copper Vase Late 1800s
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration an European peasant motif silver plated on repousse copper vase , Circa 1800s. Stamped: Hallmark UJEP, H 309 Dimensions: 8.75 H x 5.5 diameter. Please visi...
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American Art Nouveau Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Silver Plate, Copper

Sevres Style Pair Of Gilt Cobalt Blue Urns
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Pair of Gilt Cobalt Blue Urns. Both Urns depict a cobalt blue background that is decorated in the center with a hand painted country side landscape ...
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Unknown Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

White Neoclassical Urn
Located in New York, NY
White Neoclassical Urn. Large white glazed Italian urn form earthenware vase after the antique with classical figures in draped garments with sigillated urns on either side issuing ...
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Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Earthenware

Pair of 18th Century Patinated Greek Terracotta Olive Jars with Ochre Glaze
Located in Dallas, TX
Bring timeless Mediterranean character to your space with this impressive pair of 18th-century Greek olive jars. Handcrafted circa 1780, each terracotta vessel features a classic ovo...
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Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Terracotta

Rare Pair C17th Century Japanese Arita Blue and White porcelain lidded vases.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
These exquisite 17th-century Arita lidded vases exemplify the artistry of Japanese porcelain. Crafted from fine ceramics, they showcase a stunning blue and white design characterized...
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Japanese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Ming Dynasty Bronze Gu Beaker Vase
Located in Dallas, TX
Chinese bronze vase, Gu, the trumpet-shaped upper section cast with four blades filled with archaic designs. Center and lower sections depicting Toadies with very intricate backgroun...
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Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Bronze

Antique Ming Period Chinese Porcelain Landscape Figural Dish Kosometsuke
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely early 17th century Kosometsuke dish, made for the Japanese market. We simply fell in love with it. The painting style is very typical for this period but...
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Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Fitted Traveling Case Original Blown Bottles Crimson Brocade Cover Late 18th C
Located in valatie, NY
Fitted traveling case with original hand blown gilt decorated bottles with the original crimson brocade cover, late 18th century. The case retains the original working lock and key o...
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English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Wrought Iron

#3 Antique Chinese Porcelain 18th C QIanlong Fencai Set Dinner Plates
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated SET of 3 dishes floral scene Condition 1 dish with cram restoration, 1 dish with line in centre, 1 dish with line in base. All with very minimal frits. Size...
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Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

18th Century German Clear Glass Cup
Located in Basildon, GB
An 18th Century German, or possibly Bohemian, Clear Glass Cup / Tumbler, scalloped clear glass, hand decorated with tree's and flowers, and a dog and deer suggesting a possible hunti...
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Glass

Antique Korean Buncheong Ceramic Vase with Incised Designs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean ceramic bottle form jar of Buncheong ware circa 15-16th century Joseon Dynasty. The surface of the jar features a celadon glaze and an elaborate incised design of large flor...
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Korean Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Pre Columbian Double-Spouted Anthropomorphic Vessel
Located in seoul, KR
This double-spouted vessel originates from the Peru and is distinguished by its sculptural anthropomorphic design. One of the chambers is shaped as a human figure with a triangular f...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Pottery

Japanese Antique Huge “Yabure Tsubo” Ceramic Vessel 13th Century / Wabi-Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old, monumental Tokoname ware “Yabure Tsubo” (broken-form jar) made in Japan. A yabure tsubo refers to a large jar that has sustained natural breakage and weathering over ...
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Japanese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Very old Japanese pottery Jar "Sueki"/beautiful natural glaze/Excavated item
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Sue pottery is called "sueki" in Japanese. Earthenware that was baked at low temperatures is now being baked at high temperatures due to the development of kiln technology. It is a l...
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Japanese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Pottery

Two Very Large Hand Carved Antique Stone Urns Planters Anduze Rustic Jardinières
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Two Very Large Hand Carved Antique Stone Urns Planters Anduze Rustic Jardinières . Round Hand Carved Stone Containers as a cache pot . Exquisite exe...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Stone, Limestone

Chinese Neolithic Painted Ovoid Pottery Jar, Machang Period #7
Located in Bradenton, FL
Chinese Neolithic Ovoid Pottery Jar from the Majiayao Culture, specifically the Machang phase, in northwest China, and dating back roughly 4000 years. Ja...
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Chinese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Pottery

Antique 17th century Dutch Bellarmine Jug - Baardmankruik - Bartmann jug Rare!
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded man"), also called a Bellarmine jug, is a type of decorated salt-glazed stoneware that was manufactured i...
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Dutch Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

18th Spanish Century Glazed Alhambra Majolica Amphora Vase
Located in Miami, FL
Spanish Mid 19th Century Glazed Alhambra Majolica Amphora Vase Valencian medieval jug reflexes with heraldic shield.
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Spanish Medieval Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Copper Handmade Kettles, circa 1750-1770
Located in Aalsgaarde, DK
Copper handmade kettles from a Danish manor house and signed, circa 1750 - 1770.
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Copper

Pair of 19th Century Sevres Style Vases After The Sevres Vase Grec A Ornements
Located in Long Branch, NJ
These vases were made in France in the late 19th century and are modeled after the Sevres vase Grec A Ornements with painted royalty around the rim of each. The vases are gorgeously ...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Vietnamese Celadon Lotus Vessel, Ly or Tran Dynasty, 13th/14th Century, Vietnam
Located in Austin, TX
An unusually large Vietnamese celadon glazed stoneware bowl with carved lotus petal design, Ly or Tran Dynasty, 13th - 14th century, Vietnam. The large bowl or offering vessel of generous proportions, rising on a short, unglazed foot ring, revealing the reddish buff stoneware body. The globular body elegantly tapered. The lower section deeply carved with a traditional stylized lotus petal design, a band of incised lines above. The upper section of the vessel ribbed, and carved with long, elegant lotus petals that taper upwards, terminating in rounded ends. Another band of incised lines circumscribe the mouth. The vessel glazed in a wonderful olive celadon glaze. The glaze stopping neatly at the mouth rim. The transparent celadon glaze thinning slightly along the raised sections, and pooling in the recesses, adding additional depth and texture. The celadon with wonderful yellow undertones, giving an overall olive hue. Reference: For four similar, but smaller examples, all dated 13th-14th century, see Stevenson & Guy, "Vietnamese Ceramics...
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Vietnamese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Stoneware

Large late Ming dynasty Wanli period blue and white kraak ware export porcelain
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely potted and painted blue and white Kosometsuke plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with design of Turkish style Arabesque pattern and central a Lingzhi Fung...
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Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

18th Century Nevers Faience Pot a Oranger
Located in Basildon, GB
Nevers Faience 'Pot a Oranger' adorned with painted Asian house scene and a flowered decoration in shades of blue (camaieu bleu). Circa 1750 tin-glazed p...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Faience

Antique Japanese Porcelain 19th c Meiji Arita Figural Polychrome dish
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this unusual and magnificent bowl from the Meiji period (19th century). It has a very interesting and lovely blue and gold scene Unmarked at the base. Condition 1 ...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Pair of French Directoire Late 18th Century Lidded Apothecary Jars with Labels
By Deroche
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of French Directoire period ceramic lidded apothecary jars from the late 18th century, with hand-painted foliage motifs, labeled Tamarind and Ext. Cicutæ A:F, from the Deroche...
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French Directoire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Antique Korean Buncheong Flat Bottle Vase with Incised Designs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean Buncheong stoneware vase circa 15th century of Joseon Dynasty. The robust vase with thick walls was made in a bottle form with rounded square contour and flattened surfaces....
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Korean Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Three Chinese Late 18th Century Blue-Glazed and Gilt Porcelain Ginger Jars
Located in Rome, IT
Three Chinese late 18th century Blue-Glazed and Gilt Porcelain Ginger Jars with a phoenix pierced on rock work, in a fenced garden of peonies. cm. 24
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Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Antique 1670-1680 Japanese Nangawara Kakiemon Dish with Pine and rock Flowers
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Very happy with this new arrival. Lobed Arita kakiemon deep dish of unusual shape and design. Possibly a base of a tureen? Period; ca 1680 Condition ...
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Chinese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Maiolica Bottle Cooler Joseph Hannong, Strasbourg France, circa 1771
Located in Milano, IT
Bottle cooler Manufacture Joseph Hannong Strasbourg, France, circa 1771 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) It measures 7.40 in in height x 9.64 in diam...
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French Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Maiolica

Japanese antique white-glazed sake bottle / [Satsuma ware] vase / 1700-1800s
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This registration is one of the pottery called Satsuma ware, which was made in Kagoshima Prefecture around the 18th to 19th centuries during the Edo period. (The area with a red circ...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases and Vessels

Materials

Pottery

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